AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Raul Chao is a Professor of Business Administration at the Darden School of Business, where he teaches operations management, innovation, and new product development courses.
Raul's research and teaching is focused on helping managers design more innovative organizations. He has helped many entrepreneurial ventures and established companies manage their innovation and new product development processes, and he currently serves as an advisor or board member for numerous early-stage ventures.
He is a leader in novel curriculum design, having developed a number of cross-disciplinary experiential courses at the University of Virginia focused on product development and technology commercialization.
Much of Raul's research and teaching is based on fieldwork and case studies conducted at companies such as 3M, Microsoft, Whirlpool and Lockheed Martin, among others.

Prior to joining the Darden faculty, Raul worked as a management consultant serving U.S. and Latin American organizations in a wide range of industries including pharmaceutical, biomedical, healthcare, financial services, hospitality and media. He earned his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and his Ph.D. in Operations Management from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia with his wife Cristina and their children, Carolina, Tomas and Nicolas.

Chao, R.(2012) "
The Ins and Outs of Open Innovation,"
Forbes, 7 May 2012. Reprinted with permission on
crowdsourcing.org and
Darden Business Publishing. Named one of the "top ten" articles on open innovation for 2012 by
Open Innovation Community.

EMBA/GEMBA Courses

Executive Education Courses

Faculty leader and teacher in
numerous custom and open-enrolment programs dealing with innovation strategy,
new product development, operations management, and general management.
Clients include Capital One Financial, 3M Corporation, United Technologies,
AES, Saudi-Arabia/Bahrain Institute of Banking, Lockheed Martin Space
Systems, McIntire School of Commerce, Henkel Group, CEIBS, and PAD University
of Peru

Advancing knowledge through research that shapes business, Darden professors are recognized thought leaders in their fields. They are not only master case method teachers, they also author many of the cases used in Darden classrooms and around the world.